Text adventure
Spy Snatcher
1988 video game
- Released
- —
- Platforms
- Acorn ElectronAmstrad CPCAmstrad PCWAtari STZX Spectrum
- Genres
- Text adventure
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Topologika
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Country
- United Kingdom
About
Spy Snatcher is a floppy disk-based text adventure released by Topologika Software in 1988. It was the last professional text adventure to be released on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was also released for ZX Spectrum (+3 disk only), RISC OS, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST and Nimbus.[1]
Keywords
- cyborg
- espionage
- text adventure
- film noir
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Story
The secret plans for the Sonic Macrothrodule have been leaked to foreign powers by a mole. The player plays as an agent of MI7 and has only an hour to solve the puzzle and reveal the mole.
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Collections6 collections
Platform libraries
- Amstrad CPC games
- Amstrad PCW games
- Atari ST gamesCommercial games
- ZX Spectrum games
- Acorn Electron gamesAcorn Electron
Genres
- Text-based gamesOn personal computers › Commercial text adventure games
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